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Boutros on 25 July 2012
smbu2000 said:
Boutros said:
VicViper said:
Boutros said:
VicViper said:
I really hope this Ni No Kuni sales fiasco don't kill the series and makes it come back to portable form.

At least there's a translation project for it, but it's crawling at this moment!

Interestingly enough despite the low sell in Japan it still outsold Xenoblade and it's on it's way to outsell The Last Story...lol


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I really don't go by VG Chartz japanese software numbers.

The point is, the DS game outsold them all combined.

http://garaph.info/softwareindividual.php//gid/4641

Yeah I don't know why but VGC shows Ni No Kuni PS3 having very great legs. We might never know the truth.

But we both know Ni No Kuni DS was overly shipped and received big price cuts only a couple of weeks after release and came out during the holiday season so it's not a very good comparison. They actually only made one shipment for the game and have yet to sell it all :/

Actually we will know, but it probably won't be until sometime after the end of the year. Famitsu/Media Create posts their top 1000 list of the year at that time. Ni no Kuni also released during the Holidays (Nov.) The PS3 version was also heavily discounted, I saw it in the 3,000-4,000 yen range. Considering that it's MSRP was over 8,800 yen that's quite a discount shortly after release.

The Ni no Kuni special edition PS3 is also still available for cheap. I just saw it the other day for 25,000 yen. That includes the custom gold slim PS3 (160gb) as well as the game. A standard 160gb PS3 (with no game) also sells for 25,000 yen.

http://www.jp.playstation.com/ps3/hardware/cejh10019.html

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/02/sonys-golden-ninokuni-magical-edition-playstation-3-heads-for/

Oh I forgot that the top 1000 showed sales. I thought it was just ranking. Well that's cool!

It's undeniable Ni No Kuni PS3 didn't do so well but that MSRP of 8,800 yen was grossly exaggerated and 3,000-4,000 yen is still pretty pricy. Most games have a much higher MSRP than what they sell for even day one. Some examples of games to come are Tales of Xillia 2 or Resident Evil 6.

I mean didn't FFXIII-2 fall to like 1,000-2,000 yen shortly after release? Now that's a huge drop.



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smbu2000 on 25 July 2012
Carl2291 said:
I also want that Ni No Kuni PS3... Pretty!

Why dont we get LE PS3s?

SCEE/SCEA are so stupid.

It is cheap, effectively the same price as a standard JP 160GB PS3, plus you get the game free! That's just because nobody is buying it though. ;-p

 

I do like the LE systems as well, although I just sold off my LE PS3. Goodbye FF13 Lightning Edition PS3.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b258/smbu2000/misc/CIMG2493_1.jpg

You've been replaced with my new Panasonic Diga Blu-Ray Recorder. (I didn't really play ps3 games and I mainly used it as a BR player anyway)

http://panasonic.jp/diga/blu-ray/bzt810_710/index.html




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Immortal on 25 July 2012
Conegamer said:
Immortal said:
This week's just filler, really. Next week will be the most fun thing since the holidays. 3DS predictions, anyone?


When...when did you return??? I predict 205k for the 3DS, 830k for NSMB2 (includes online). 3DS held on well this week though!

I just returned right now, basically, :D. And it's almost scary that 3DS is well over 40k the week before a huge boost. If I recall, it did exactly 4k the week before the price cut last year, and proceeded to do fifty times that the next week.  If the increase this time is anywhere close to that ratio...



 

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Immortal on 25 July 2012
pezus said:

Lol, you wish


No need to mock my innocent fanboy dreams, :(!



 

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VicViper on 25 July 2012
Carl2291 said:
Kenology said:
Carl2291 said:
250k 3DS

850k Mario

Yep. Should be about right.

Are you overshooting so you can say you're disappointed with the numbers next?



Those numbers are less than NSMB and NSMB Wii openings in JP. Ill admit, I aint done much research... But Id have thought a new, 2D Mario would perform quite similar.

Honestly thought people were lowballing, to say they were surprised by sales is there something Ive missed?

Well, for one this one includes a big push for digital downloads - it's being pushed by Nintendo themselves with coin bonus and stuff like that - I think a free DK Kong too.

For two it's only two days of sales, compared to the common 4 days most games get.It's being released on a saturday, a thing mostly common for DQ games.

But as a positive, the new 3DS may influence its sales a bit.



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hiska-kun on 25 July 2012
Boutros said:
VicViper said:
I really hope this Ni No Kuni sales fiasco don't kill the series and makes it come back to portable form.

At least there's a translation project for it, but it's crawling at this moment!

Interestingly enough despite the low sell in Japan it still outsold Xenoblade and it's on it's way to outsell The Last Story...lol

According to Media Create, this is the truth at the end of 2011:

[WII] Xenoblade Chronicles (Nintendo) {2010.06.10} - 177,659 [First shipment ~110k]

[WII] The Last Story (Nintendo) {2011.01.27} - 165,431 [First shipment ~165k]

[PS3] Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch # <RPG> (Level 5) {2011.11.17} - 121,125 [First shipment ~145k]

Source is geimin with the top 1000 of Media Create 2011:

http://geimin.net/da/db/2011_ne_mc/index.php

P.D: The Last Story is #69 Ni No kuni #111 and Xenoblade #498



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http://zonaforo.meristation.com/topic/2246651/

Boutros on 25 July 2012
hiska-kun said:
Boutros said:
VicViper said:
I really hope this Ni No Kuni sales fiasco don't kill the series and makes it come back to portable form.

At least there's a translation project for it, but it's crawling at this moment!

Interestingly enough despite the low sell in Japan it still outsold Xenoblade and it's on it's way to outsell The Last Story...lol

According to Media Create, this is the truth at the end of 2011:

[WII] Xenoblade Chronicles (Nintendo) {2010.06.10} - 177,659 [First shipment ~110k]

[WII] The Last Story (Nintendo) {2011.01.27} - 165,431 [First shipment ~165k]

[PS3] Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch # (Level 5) {2011.11.17} - 121,125 [First shipment ~145k]

Source is geimin with the top 1000 of Media Create 2011:

http://geimin.net/da/db/2011_ne_mc/index.php

P.D: The Last Story is #69 Ni No kuni #111 and Xenoblade #498

Yeah I know but based on VGC Ni No Kuni had strong legs in 2012 and with the All-In-One edition it should pass The Last Story sometime this fall.



DieAppleDie on 25 July 2012

200k 3DS
450k NSMB2 combined



VicViper on 25 July 2012

Nobody commented this yet?

The new full Monster Hunter game EXCLUSIVE to PSP sold barely 10k copies! ULTRA BOMBA!


:P



NintendoPie on 25 July 2012
pezus said:

160k 3DS and 660k Mario. Wouldn't those cards be counted as retail sales? 

I would think so.